Why Buhari Does Not Respond To Every Issue – Presidency

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says President Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t have to speak on every issue as that will make him a loquacious character.

Adesina said this on Tuesday, when he featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, noting that the president has not been mute on herders and farmers conflicts as insinuated by some people.

He averred that Buhari has publicly made his stance known on the issue on a number of occasion, which is that anyone who bears arms unlawfully should be arrested and prosecuted.

He noted the president does not need to issue a specific statement to show that he is not in support of suspected killer herdsmen, since he had addressed that previously.

On Buhari’s reaction to the call by Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, that transhumance and the movement of cattle from the north to south be prohibited, Adesina said it is one out of the several solutions that need to be looked into.

“It is not that the president hasn’t spoken, because a number of times, the president has spoken on the issue and his position has always been the same. Anybody, whoever he is, that carries arms unlawfully should be arrested and prosecuted,” he said.

“The president has said it countless times. No matter who he is, where he comes from, criminality is criminality; anybody bearing arms unlawfully must be arrested and prosecuted.

“Every statement is categorical. Anything the president says is categorical, so you don’t need to ask for categorical statements again. Many times, he has spoken about this.

“Remember that some few days before the Ondo saga, there had been the Sokoto one that some people gave an ultimatum to Bishop Kukah to leave town. The presidency was against it.

“Would we say the president also spoke because bishop Kukah was Fulani? Not at all. The president is the president of the whole country, and peace and security devolve in him and he must do everything fairly and impartially at all times.

“When you have knotty issues like this, many solutions will be proffered; the president does not need to speak on each and every one of them. He does not have to. It was just an idea being proffered. It should be looked into, and then if it is a consensus, it should be adopted.

“But it is not as one idea comes, the president speaks on it; another idea comes, the president speaks on it; such must be a talkative president. Ideas will need to be discussed and critically assessed.”

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